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Show TAXPAYERS LIKE OUR CHATTER ON ROADS MANY PHONE THEIR UNQUALIFIED ENDORSEMENT ENDORSE-MENT AND ASK THAT THE GOOD WORK GO ON. CEMENT COMBINE MAKES RAISE ON CEMENT CE-MENT FOR STATE ROADS. CACHE WILL PROBABLY PROB-ABLY GO ALONG CAREFULLY W A T C II I N G HER STEP WHILE BUILDING THE COUNTY ROADS. The taxpayers, that Is a very largo number of them, are In complete harmony with our views on loads as expi eased In our last Issue, and i. previous Issues since the bond eloe tlon. We know this because they have told us In personal conversation over the phone and otherwise. They ate beginning to rcnllo that Cache county has been handed tho worst Job lu tho state and them are Jobs In Her localities that are bad enough, but without doubt Cache got tho Job that Is In u class by Itseir, the worst Job in tho stilt o. What makes thin piece of thlevcrj all the more glnrlng Is the apparent fiict that it was known that tho "gold brick" was being pass-cd, that tho stale engineer was notified, and a telegram was sent to him asking thnt the work be stopped on account of deficient materials. Ana greatly to the discredit of all concerned it is claimed that the district engineer "sanctioned many things In connection connec-tion with thb constt uctlon that were far below present day standards." This waR not a case of waiting until tho Job was completed In order to try out Its efficiency, Ub defects wero apparently known at tho time nnd deliberately de-liberately allowed to go on and be thrust upon the people. These arc bold statements, but wo have tho evidence ev-idence by our side and know whereof where-of we speak. And now more roads are In prospect pros-pect and shortly Cache county will be building more concrete roads, if present plans ate carried out. But behold the attitude of the cement manufacturer ns ho appears on the scene. Last ear tho state had a contract with the cement combine nt $2.0G per barrel That was when war prices were on, but now the contract lias expired ami the cement combine has notified th.- state that It must pay $2.25 a hanel for Us cement. At this time when mining Is put out or business, when lumber linn declined In price, when inplojees of rallroadB and atenniHlilp lines nnd In all the Industries are luUIng thvlr cuts, whon the fnrmer Is gasping for breath Incident In-cident to the decline In the prlco of tlio products or his farm, the cement combine conies orwatd with a 20 cent raise per barrel. On tho contract con-tract tin- state lias on Its hands now, thin Increase will make a raise of $4G,000 on cuuont alono. Is it not fortunate, notwithstanding our misfortunes mis-fortunes of provlous years, that Cache county Is free and can proceed leisurely to' work "Out her concrcto road program. Again we say get busy on the count) ro.ids and let'o see it we cannot get some rross-loads rross-loads as good ao th.' dirt road from Frankiin to Preston. If ,we can the cement combino can keep their cement ce-ment with the price along with It, and Cache county will have some roads that can bo traveled any nnd nil times or the year, at n costs so that the tuxp.iyers can live with some c'hnnce of being able to pay for tin upkeep of I lie roads. |